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iPod May Become Next Fair-Use Battleground
jaredmauch writes "USA Today is reporting on a trend of selling iPods on eBay which are preloaded with music and movies. This raises interesting questions about the legality of the files, including those that offer seemingly legitimate services of transcoding DVDs for the iPod video (while selling you the DVD disc as well)." An example from the article: "A 60-gigabyte video iPod loaded with 11,800 songs, with a starting bid of $799. The iPod alone would cost about $400. 'I don't see how it's different than selling a used CD,' seller Steve Brinn, a Cincinnati pediatrician, wrote in an e-mail to USA TODAY. 'If the music industry asked me not to do it, I just wouldn't do it.'"
...for a 25% discount compared to an empty iPod.
If I didn't see those ?'s, "'s, and that > in your post, I would have assumed your shift keys were broken.
Ceci n'est pas une sig.
And what about inheritance?
Someday I'll own all of my dad's LP's.
But anything he's purchased on iTunes will be tied to his email address...
so will whoever inherits his email address also inherit the music he's purchased
from itunes? Or does the itunes music store license prohibit that?
If only we had reasonable copyright-expiration laws this would actually be a pretty fair idea. Imagine being able to get the entire works of Frank Sinatra (for example) for free, anytime, anywhere.
In Repressive Burma, it's not just your connection that dies. slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=314547&cid=20819199
Actually the RIAA would probably sue as one crime PER SONG with resulting absurd millions in alleged damages.